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A Modern Lover: Perfect Gifts For The Readers Annotated By David Herbert Lawrence. by D.H. Lawrence
ozielbispo's review against another edition
3.0
Jovem volta ao antigo povoado onde residia para tentar se acertar com sua namorada de adolescência, só que ela já tem outro. ...ele é inteligente seu rival bonito. ..Quem será que ela vai escolher?
clockless's review against another edition
2.0
This is a very uneven collection of stories, there are some long, boring, and predictable stories like "The Woman Who Rode Away," others are surprisingly great, like "The Rocking-Horse Winner," and some are just strange, like "You Touched Me." The only common theme linking them together seems to be unhappiness in various forms, and some slight homoeroticism (particularly in the earlier stories). Most are semi-allegorical, but Lawrence doesn't seem to have the skill to pull that off with every attempt.
That, I think, is the main problem with the collection. It seems to start off okay, but as the stories build up it becomes increasingly clear that D. H. Lawrence really isn't that good of a writer. He has some basic characters that he understands well, but when they appear again and again in various guises you start to see how few of these stock characters he has. His vocabulary is similarly limited; in story after story he describes things and people in exactly the same way, sometimes in the same story, very often in the same paragraph. That last part could be explained away as a stylistic choice, but the fact that he makes the same stylistic choice in so many stories (it seemed to be particularly overused in opening paragraphs) just further proves the point that he is fundamentally a writer of limited skill.
In the end, not really worth reading, except for maybe "The Rocking-Horse Winner," if you happen to have a copy lying around. Don't strain yourself, though.
That, I think, is the main problem with the collection. It seems to start off okay, but as the stories build up it becomes increasingly clear that D. H. Lawrence really isn't that good of a writer. He has some basic characters that he understands well, but when they appear again and again in various guises you start to see how few of these stock characters he has. His vocabulary is similarly limited; in story after story he describes things and people in exactly the same way, sometimes in the same story, very often in the same paragraph. That last part could be explained away as a stylistic choice, but the fact that he makes the same stylistic choice in so many stories (it seemed to be particularly overused in opening paragraphs) just further proves the point that he is fundamentally a writer of limited skill.
In the end, not really worth reading, except for maybe "The Rocking-Horse Winner," if you happen to have a copy lying around. Don't strain yourself, though.
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